Nat Turner
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Nat Turner's obsession with white women began at an early age. When he was under Master Samuel he grew interested in Ms. Emmeline, Samuel's youngest daughter. She was older than Nat's 14 years at "twenty-five, perhaps a little more." (p. 176). As Nat looks back at his life from his jail cell he recognizes her beauty and he admits "worship(ing) her-from a great distance, of course-with the chaste, evangelical passion that could only be nurtured in the innocent heart of a bout like myself, reared in surroundings where women (at least white ladies) seem to float like bubbles in an immaculate effulgence of beauty and perfection." (p. 176-177). As a boy he would watch her working in the garden, sneaking glances whenever he could...